Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.5 vs Command A

Claude Opus 4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.5 to 36.5 on the Noometry Index. Command A costs 2.3× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Opus 4.5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 23 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.5 Anthropic

50.5

Rank #47 Confirmed

Command A Cohere

36.5

Rank #215 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 23 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.5 scores higher in 9 categories and Command A in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where Claude Opus 4.5 leads 54.8 to 27.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 80.2% for Claude Opus 4.5 and 28.8% for Command A.
  • Command A is cheaper at $2.50 / $10 per million input/output tokens, against $5 / $25 for Claude Opus 4.5.
  • Command A accepts more context: 256K tokens versus 200K.
  • Command A has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.5 and Command A specifications
Claude Opus 4.5Command A
ProviderAnthropicCohere
Noometry Index50.536.5
Released2025-11-012025-03-13
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window200K256K
Max output64K8K
Input $ / M tokens$5$2.50
Output $ / M tokens$25$10
Results tracked6924

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 54.8 (#27), Command A: 27.2 (#322)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Command A
LMArena Coding15041330
SWE-bench Verified76.7%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)76.8%—
Aider Polyglot—12%
LMArena WebDev1494—
SWE-bench Multilingual70.7%—
GSO26.5%—
WeirdML63.7%—
ALE-Bench1,025—
AlgoTune1.77—

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 47.3 (#12), Command A: 35.9 (#40)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Command A
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard77.5%57.1%
Terminal-Bench63.1%—
GDPval45.5%—
Remote Labor Index3.8%—
τ²-bench Airline84%—
τ²-bench Banking24.7%—
τ²-bench Retail79.6%—
τ²-bench Telecom92.3%—
Cybench82%—
DeepResearch Bench54.8%—
OSWorld66.3%—
BALROG43.5%—
LMArena Search1180—
METR Time Horizons75%—
Vending-Bench 24,967—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 42.6 (#51), Command A: 18.3 (#283)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Command A
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.2%28.8%
LMArena Hard Prompts14761326
DTBench89.9%61.3%
LMCA44.5%10.3%
ARC-AGI-237.6%—
SimpleBench62%—
NYT Connections (extended)52.5%—
ARC-AGI-180%—
Chess Puzzles12%—
EnigmaEval11.9%—
EBR-Bench14.3%—
Mystery Game Puzzles22%—
Epoch Capabilities Index150.09—
ForecastBench60.7—

Math Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 38.6 (#132), Command A: 36.2 (#171)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Command A
LMArena Math14631300
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)34.4%—
FrontierMath Tier 44.9%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202586.1%—
ProofBench36%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)20.7%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 56.5 (#44), Command A: 37.1 (#159)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Command A
Vectara Hallucination Rate10.9%9.3%
LMArena Expert14871295
GPQA Diamond86%—
Humanity's Last Exam25.2%—
SimpleQA Verified45.7%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.5: 31.4 (#107), Command A: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Command A
GeoBench75%—
VPCT40%—
Furniture Assembly28.3%—
LMArena Document1462—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 54.3 (#47), Command A: 45.3 (#170)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Command A
LMArena Non-English14381313
LMArena Chinese14701327
LMArena French14711351
LMArena German14491341
LMArena Japanese14161285
LMArena Korean14241285
LMArena Russian14471314
LMArena Spanish14581347

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 77.5 (#19), Command A: 69.1 (#177)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Command A
LMArena Instruction Following14781309

Long Context Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 46.5 (#22), Command A: 40.6 (#151)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Command A
LMArena Longer Query14801334
CL-bench21.1%—

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 68.1 (#28), Command A: 47.6 (#208)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Command A
LMArena Text14511331
LMArena Creative Writing14451319
EQ-Bench Creative Writing16871145
LMArena Multi-Turn14661339

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.5 better than Command A?

Claude Opus 4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.5 to 36.5 on the Noometry Index. Command A costs 2.3× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Opus 4.5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 4.5 or Command A?

Command A is cheaper. It lists at $2.50 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens; Claude Opus 4.5 lists at $5 and $25.

Is Claude Opus 4.5 or Command A better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 54.8 versus 27.2 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Command A does, with 256K tokens against 200K.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.5 and Command A share?

23 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.5 has 69 scored results on Noometry and Command A has 24.

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